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Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.
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明治20年。九州に芸者として売られてきた5歳の志津は、見習い芸者の鶴のもと美しく成長する。20年後、鶴は熊本一の遊郭・東雲楼でおかみとなり、志津もそこで働く。鶴はパトロンの相場師・山岡の再起に望みを託し、東雲楼を担保に大金を用立てるが、山岡は失脚して自殺し、東雲楼は有働組の組長とその情婦・照香の手に渡る。志津は鉄道工事作業員・執行と結婚したかったが山岡失脚の責任を取らされ、東雲楼から追放される。
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Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.
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尼崎の藤波組では二代目の急死により霊代の加奈江が事実上の統率をしていた。加奈江には妹の頼子と、雅美、直也という二人の子供がおり、頼子の夫は現在拘留中の若頭・松岡、雅美の夫・宗田は本部長、そして直也は最近組を興し藤竜会の会長になっていた。松岡が出所となり、加奈江は三代目に松岡を立て、二代目霊代からひこうとしていたが、その矢先に松岡は射殺されてしまう。
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One of Japan's favorite sword stars, Fujita Makoto, returns as the legendary Tange Sazen, the one-eyed, one-armed samurai who is a champion for the common people. Unflappable, except with the ladies, he fights evil in Shogun Yoshimune's Edo. The kokezaru no tsubo (earless monkey jar) has gone missing with a secret hidden inside that could change the course of history. All of Edo's top swordsmen, including Yagyu Genzaburo and Ooka Echizen are involved as villains pursue their evil quest! Superb swordplay highlights this exciting all-star extravaganza!
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時の将軍である徳川家光は次男の徳松を溺愛し、長男の竹千代を亡き者にしようとしていた。竹千代は幕府の刺客に襲われるが、腕に覚えのある浪人たちに助けられ事なきを得た。元服式のため江戸城への出仕を命じられた竹千代は、石河刑部ら浪人たちに守られながら江戸城へ向かう。道中、幕府の刺客たちが次々に現れ、浪人たちは命がけで竹千代を守り続けるのだった。
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六甲山にある聖サフラン教会のシスターである今日子がオルガンで賛美歌を演奏している。天竜組の二代目の天竜晴彦はヤクザでありながら、その端正な美しさから今日子に惚れ抜いており、子分にクリスチャンの洗礼を受けさせてしまった。また晴彦同様、今日子に恋心を寄せる刑事の神代は、実家が天台宗の寺で、これまた厚いカベが。ところが今日子自身はというと、ある嵐の日に運命的に出会った英二に密かに想いを寄せていた。周囲の人々の思いが交錯する中、今日子の運命は思いがけない方向へ進み始めるのだった。
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The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
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Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back no matter what it takes. 2 - When Sutezo is forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, he becomes friends with a young girl named Sato in process. Together, they both escape and try to get by on scams and petty theft.
